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Etsu Nupe hails NGO over free treatment of 3,000 patients

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By Aideloje Ojo The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has commended the UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Africa Healthcare Development Trust (AHDT), for offering free medical treatment to over 3, 000 patients in his domain. Etsu Nupe spoke with newsmen in his Wadata palace, Bida, while speaking on the free treatment by the medical professionals of Nigerians in the United Kingdom. Read More

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Why Supreme Court sacked Rep Jev

June 2, 2014 Administrator 0

Stories by Ameh Ejekwonyilo Supreme Court of Nigeria has ordered Mr. Orker Jev of the former Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) now All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Buruku Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives to vacate his seat with immediate effect. Parties in the appeal before the panel were Orker Jev, the appellant while the 1st respondent was Serkar Read More

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Muslims tasked on fear of God

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By Usman Ibn A. Lapai Muslims have been enjoined to imbibe the fear of the Almighty Allah in their daily activities. Speaking at a 40-day Fidau prayer organised by the Kaduna state Independent Petroleum Marketers Association for the repose of Captain Sabo Sambo in Kaduna, an Islamic cleric, Immam Mohammadu, said the call became imperative in view of the happenings Read More

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Matters arising: Reckless driving

June 2, 2014 Administrator 0

The immediate cause of road traffic accidents may be as a result of mechanical factor, carelessness to cheek and maintain the vehicle at appropriate time, and reckless driving. Road traffic accidents may be fatal resulting in deaths of passengers, drivers, pedestrians or minor when it is not severe to cause hardship to the monitoring public. Automobile accidents occur worldwide but Read More

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Smoking: Impose high tax on tobacco, physicians urge FG

June 2, 2014 Administrator 0

By Umar Bayo Abdulwahab Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPN) has called on the federal government to impose high tax on tobacco products to lower death and diseases caused by smoking. The association also urged the National Assembly to harmonise and pass into law a comprehensive tobacco control bill that would also impose a high tax on tobacco Read More

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UK’s Telegraph Media Group reports £57m in pre-tax profits for 2013

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Figure almost flat compared to previous year, while operating profits are up due to savings on newsprint and distribution The United Kingdom’s Telegraph Media Group has reported pre-tax profits of £57m last year, almost flat compared with 2012. The publisher of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph said savings on newsprint and distribution reinvested in its digital operations have Read More

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Alleged marginalisation: Forum faults Sultan’s comments

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By Idibia Gabriel A Muslim youth, Northern Youth Forum (NYF), has decried the comments made by the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, in which he was said to have alleged the marginalisation of Nigerian Muslims by the present administration. The Forum, in a statement by its National Director of Read More

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Sulu-Gambari mourns Gombe emir, Kutigi’s wife

June 2, 2014 Administrator 0

By Umar Bayo Abdulwahab Emir of Ilorin and chairman, Kwara state traditional council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has commiserated with the Gombe emirate council over the demise of the Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Shehu Abubakar Usman, describing the incident as “shocking.” Sulu-Gambari in his condolence message issued in Ilorin said the late monarch, without doubt, had during his reign as the Read More